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PM leaves tomorrow for G-8 Summit in Japan, to meet Bush
New Delhi, July 6 (PTI) With new-found support for
the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal in his bag and changing political
equations at home, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves here
Monday on a three-day visit to Japan where he will meet U.S.
President George W. Bush and may discuss steps to push forward
the nuclear agreement.
The meeting with Bush on the sidelines of the G-8
Summit in Toyako in Hokkaido between July 7 and 9 is expected
to provide an opportunity for the two principals to review
the latest position about the deal less than three years
after they issued a joint statement on civil nuclear
cooperation between the two countries in Washington in July
2005.
With new friends Samajwadi Party and some other
smaller parties expected to rescue the government in
Parliament in case the estranged Left allies withdraw support
on the nuclear deal, Singh could brief Bush on government's
determination to push through the deal--the first step being
the clearance of a India-specific safeguards agreement by the
I.A.E.A. to be followed by the U.S. taking up with the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (N.S.G.) for exemption to India for doing
nuclear commerce.
The Prime Minister will also be conscious of the
fact that the Left parties, which have threatened to withdraw
support the moment the next step in implementing the
deal is taken, will be watching every action of his in Japan.
The Left parties, strongly opposed to the deal, have,
however, held back their hand on their extreme action and
decided to wait till the Prime Minister's return from his
trip.
Briefing reporters on the visit on Friday, Foreign
Secretary Shivshankar Menon had said that the government
would like to go ahead with the deal "as soon as we can" and
made it clear that the U.S. was committed to getting the
exemption from the N.S.G.
India was also in touch with members of the N.S.G and
would continue its discussions with them. Menon pointed out
that many of the leaders attending the G-8 are members of the
N.S.G.
The Prime Minister, who is going to Japan for the
outreach dialogue of the G-8 with the "O-5" outreach
countries, of which India is a member, will also have
bilateral meetings with leaders of countries including Russia,
Japan, Germany and Britain, apart from China, South Africa,
Mexico, Korea, Australia and Indonesia.
The current global food crisis, shooting oil prices
and the credit crisis that is depressing economic growth
world over are expected to figures in the talks at the summit
which will also focus on the climate change issue.
On July 9, the G-8 and O-5 leaders will have a
breakfast meeting in which they will take up a mid-term review
of decisions taken at the last summit in Heilegendamm in
Germany and discuss research and innovation, energy efficiency
and security, promoting cross-border investment to mutual
benefit including corporate responsibility and millennium
development goals.
The O-5 countries plan to come out with a working
document reflecting their shared attitudes and positions on
global issues like climate change and W.T.O. talks. There will
also be a meeting of leaders of 16 countries, also called
meeting of major economies (M.E.M.).
India has been attending the G-8 outreach meetings
from 2003 and an important outcome of the last year's G-8
Summit in Heilegendamm was the initiative to launch a
high-level dialogue between the G-8 and the five outreach
countries to be completed by the next year's summit in Italy.
India hopes that as a result of discussions it
would be possible to implement its own ideas on climate
change. India's approach is that developed countries should
limit their carbon emissions much below their present levels,
which they are not doing, and developing countries would do
their bit to mitigate the emissions.
New Delhi has just come out with its national
action plan for climate change and it would like to see an
international framework for climate change and work towards
achieving this.
India is convinced that the principle of equity
that must underlie the global approach should allow each
inhabitant of the earth an equal entitlement to the global
atmospheric resource.
In this connection, India is determined that its per
capita greenhouse gas emissions will at no point exceed that
of developed countries even as it pursues development
objectives.
the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal in his bag and changing political
equations at home, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves here
Monday on a three-day visit to Japan where he will meet U.S.
President George W. Bush and may discuss steps to push forward
the nuclear agreement.
The meeting with Bush on the sidelines of the G-8
Summit in Toyako in Hokkaido between July 7 and 9 is expected
to provide an opportunity for the two principals to review
the latest position about the deal less than three years
after they issued a joint statement on civil nuclear
cooperation between the two countries in Washington in July
2005.
With new friends Samajwadi Party and some other
smaller parties expected to rescue the government in
Parliament in case the estranged Left allies withdraw support
on the nuclear deal, Singh could brief Bush on government's
determination to push through the deal--the first step being
the clearance of a India-specific safeguards agreement by the
I.A.E.A. to be followed by the U.S. taking up with the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (N.S.G.) for exemption to India for doing
nuclear commerce.
The Prime Minister will also be conscious of the
fact that the Left parties, which have threatened to withdraw
support the moment the next step in implementing the
deal is taken, will be watching every action of his in Japan.
The Left parties, strongly opposed to the deal, have,
however, held back their hand on their extreme action and
decided to wait till the Prime Minister's return from his
trip.
Briefing reporters on the visit on Friday, Foreign
Secretary Shivshankar Menon had said that the government
would like to go ahead with the deal "as soon as we can" and
made it clear that the U.S. was committed to getting the
exemption from the N.S.G.
India was also in touch with members of the N.S.G and
would continue its discussions with them. Menon pointed out
that many of the leaders attending the G-8 are members of the
N.S.G.
The Prime Minister, who is going to Japan for the
outreach dialogue of the G-8 with the "O-5" outreach
countries, of which India is a member, will also have
bilateral meetings with leaders of countries including Russia,
Japan, Germany and Britain, apart from China, South Africa,
Mexico, Korea, Australia and Indonesia.
The current global food crisis, shooting oil prices
and the credit crisis that is depressing economic growth
world over are expected to figures in the talks at the summit
which will also focus on the climate change issue.
On July 9, the G-8 and O-5 leaders will have a
breakfast meeting in which they will take up a mid-term review
of decisions taken at the last summit in Heilegendamm in
Germany and discuss research and innovation, energy efficiency
and security, promoting cross-border investment to mutual
benefit including corporate responsibility and millennium
development goals.
The O-5 countries plan to come out with a working
document reflecting their shared attitudes and positions on
global issues like climate change and W.T.O. talks. There will
also be a meeting of leaders of 16 countries, also called
meeting of major economies (M.E.M.).
India has been attending the G-8 outreach meetings
from 2003 and an important outcome of the last year's G-8
Summit in Heilegendamm was the initiative to launch a
high-level dialogue between the G-8 and the five outreach
countries to be completed by the next year's summit in Italy.
India hopes that as a result of discussions it
would be possible to implement its own ideas on climate
change. India's approach is that developed countries should
limit their carbon emissions much below their present levels,
which they are not doing, and developing countries would do
their bit to mitigate the emissions.
New Delhi has just come out with its national
action plan for climate change and it would like to see an
international framework for climate change and work towards
achieving this.
India is convinced that the principle of equity
that must underlie the global approach should allow each
inhabitant of the earth an equal entitlement to the global
atmospheric resource.
In this connection, India is determined that its per
capita greenhouse gas emissions will at no point exceed that
of developed countries even as it pursues development
objectives.
